Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

What is the topic ?

For PF, it was withdrawing the US base from Okinawa. For LD, it was about promoting democracy in the Middle East.

Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

How come you don't have anyone competing in real debate?

We did have a policy team that mad quarterfinals at CatNats a few years ago. But, one of them graduated and the other got senioritis, and only sub'd in for one of our PFers when needed this year.

but seriously good luck, I know you'll post results soon.

My LDer went 2-1 as a freshman. Her one win was against the (now former) 2 time state champion, and who was a senior. She won 3 out of 9 ballots throughout her 3 rounds. My PF team went 2-2, and won 7 out of 12 ballots throughout the day. Neither qualified to CatNats. For the PF team, there hearts just weren't in it; they both new they couldn't afford to go to California for nationals even if the qualified, and so they didn't really feel motivated. I never expected the freshman to make nationals, but I am happy with her progress and she'll make it next year, I think.

The girl that did Kiddy Lit and OI had a great day. She repeated her championship in Kiddy Lit from last year, and qualified to CatNats in 5th place. The top 6 in each event qualify. The girl in Dec finished 7th, so she just missed the cut off; but, for a sophomore, she has tons of potential. The Duo team was champion last year, but finished 8th this year; but they've had a rough year personally for many reasons, so I can understand that. They are juniors, so they have one more shot to get a second championship.

My school finished 5th overall. Not our best states ever, but not a disaster either.

Some of you may know that I coach debate IRL. Tomorrow is our state championship, and we have people competing in PF, LD, Duo, Kiddy Lit, OI, and Dec. The LDer and the PF team are my charges, and I am pretty excited and nervous for them. The LDer is a freshman and the PF team are seniors.

I would really appreciate any well-wishes. Perhaps this is a bit superstitious, but I'd appreciate all the luck we can get! Thank you!

- Bsh

(PS - If I am not online tonight or much of tomorrow, this is the reason why)

How come you don't have anyone competing in real debate?

We did have a policy team that mad quarterfinals at CatNats a few years ago. But, one of them graduated and the other got senioritis, and only sub'd in for one of our PFers when needed this year.

but seriously good luck, I know you'll post results soon.

My LDer went 2-1 as a freshman. Her one win was against the (now former) 2 time state champion, and who was a senior. She won 3 out of 9 ballots throughout her 3 rounds. My PF team went 2-2, and won 7 out of 12 ballots throughout the day. Neither qualified to CatNats. For the PF team, there hearts just weren't in it; they both new they couldn't afford to go to California for nationals even if the qualified, and so they didn't really feel motivated. I never expected the freshman to make nationals, but I am happy with her progress and she'll make it next year, I think.

Fundraising is easier than it sounds- you should tell the kids the money can be raised somehow and not to worry about that sort of thing.

The girl that did Kiddy Lit and OI had a great day. She repeated her championship in Kiddy Lit from last year, and qualified to CatNats in 5th place. The top 6 in each event qualify. The girl in Dec finished 7th, so she just missed the cut off; but, for a sophomore, she has tons of potential. The Duo team was champion last year, but finished 8th this year; but they've had a rough year personally for many reasons, so I can understand that. They are juniors, so they have one more shot to get a second championship.

My school finished 5th overall. Not our best states ever, but not a disaster either.

At 3/21/2016 12:47:52 AM, bsh1 wrote:My LDer went 2-1 as a freshman. Her one win was against the (now former) 2 time state champion, and who was a senior. She won 3 out of 9 ballots throughout her 3 rounds. My PF team went 2-2, and won 7 out of 12 ballots throughout the day. Neither qualified to CatNats. For the PF team, there hearts just weren't in it; they both new they couldn't afford to go to California for nationals even if the qualified, and so they didn't really feel motivated. I never expected the freshman to make nationals, but I am happy with her progress and she'll make it next year, I think.

Fundraising is easier than it sounds- you should tell the kids the money can be raised somehow and not to worry about that sort of thing.

Not in our school system. It prohibits fundraising for individual teams. The school fundraises as a whole, and then assigns teams budgets based on what some committee thinks we deserve.

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"We wondered what happiness would look like if we could give it a physical form...the shape of happiness might resemble glass...even though you don't usually notice it, it's still definitely there. You merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light. I doubt that anything else could argue its own existence more eloquently." ~Lelouch

I'm tired...slept at 3 am again last night studying for chem. I think I did okay...maybe.

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"We wondered what happiness would look like if we could give it a physical form...the shape of happiness might resemble glass...even though you don't usually notice it, it's still definitely there. You merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light. I doubt that anything else could argue its own existence more eloquently." ~Lelouch

At 3/21/2016 12:47:52 AM, bsh1 wrote:My LDer went 2-1 as a freshman. Her one win was against the (now former) 2 time state champion, and who was a senior. She won 3 out of 9 ballots throughout her 3 rounds. My PF team went 2-2, and won 7 out of 12 ballots throughout the day. Neither qualified to CatNats. For the PF team, there hearts just weren't in it; they both new they couldn't afford to go to California for nationals even if the qualified, and so they didn't really feel motivated. I never expected the freshman to make nationals, but I am happy with her progress and she'll make it next year, I think.

Fundraising is easier than it sounds- you should tell the kids the money can be raised somehow and not to worry about that sort of thing.

Not in our school system. It prohibits fundraising for individual teams. The school fundraises as a whole, and then assigns teams budgets based on what some committee thinks we deserve.

There are ways around this. A lot of times you can meet with administrators and suddenly funds open up. We had the same problem in high school. I'm not saying you for sure could have found the money but a lot of times wallets unexpectedly open up when you start talking to people.

At 3/21/2016 12:47:52 AM, bsh1 wrote:My LDer went 2-1 as a freshman. Her one win was against the (now former) 2 time state champion, and who was a senior. She won 3 out of 9 ballots throughout her 3 rounds. My PF team went 2-2, and won 7 out of 12 ballots throughout the day. Neither qualified to CatNats. For the PF team, there hearts just weren't in it; they both new they couldn't afford to go to California for nationals even if the qualified, and so they didn't really feel motivated. I never expected the freshman to make nationals, but I am happy with her progress and she'll make it next year, I think.

Fundraising is easier than it sounds- you should tell the kids the money can be raised somehow and not to worry about that sort of thing.

Not in our school system. It prohibits fundraising for individual teams. The school fundraises as a whole, and then assigns teams budgets based on what some committee thinks we deserve.

But debate is a resource intensive activity sometimes. You do have to prioritize which tournaments just aren't worth trying to fund travel. Sucks that it doesn't always work out.

At 3/21/2016 12:47:52 AM, bsh1 wrote:My LDer went 2-1 as a freshman. Her one win was against the (now former) 2 time state champion, and who was a senior. She won 3 out of 9 ballots throughout her 3 rounds. My PF team went 2-2, and won 7 out of 12 ballots throughout the day. Neither qualified to CatNats. For the PF team, there hearts just weren't in it; they both new they couldn't afford to go to California for nationals even if the qualified, and so they didn't really feel motivated. I never expected the freshman to make nationals, but I am happy with her progress and she'll make it next year, I think.

Fundraising is easier than it sounds- you should tell the kids the money can be raised somehow and not to worry about that sort of thing.

Not in our school system. It prohibits fundraising for individual teams. The school fundraises as a whole, and then assigns teams budgets based on what some committee thinks we deserve.

But debate is a resource intensive activity sometimes. You do have to prioritize which tournaments just aren't worth trying to fund travel. Sucks that it doesn't always work out.

We don't do any travel tournaments because our total budget from administration is $200. We did meet with administration and they agree to make it $500 dollars for next year...and that took months of fighting. We get an extra $400-$700 from parents, but that's it. The only multi-day tournament we go to is CatNats. We compete at NFL/NSDA districts, but even when we qualify, we don't go, since we usually get more qualifiers to CatNats, and we'd rather take more people to a nationals than fewer.